ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. It addresses the topical issues on women's human rights to equality and nondiscrimination, as these provide an overview that can facilitate a full understanding of any issue. The aim is to directly reinforce the ultimate goal of all human rights education: understanding and accepting individual responsibility for the human rights of all people. It includes learning: Education for human rights helps people feel the importance of human rights and make them part of the way they live. Because these foundations of the UN human rights system were laid well before the emergence of the women's human rights movement. The book then discusses the factors that have influenced the own awareness of, understanding of, and activism for women's human rights. Finally, the book concludes with a Learning Activity that explores ways of making a particular human right a reality in the local community.
